Chapter 184: Emergency Mission

Hetang County First Hospital, Luxury Ward 16.

The windows were clean and bright, with lush greenery outside. This luxury ward had three rooms and two halls, complete with a bath heater, bathroom, bedroom, air conditioner, refrigerator, kitchen… It was fully equipped and hardly looked like a hospital room, more like a finely decorated mansion.

Jiang Xincheng had specifically found this ward for Wang Gaiying. She still lay quietly on the bed, receiving the best care.

After half a month of treatment, even the top neurologists of the Shenxia Alliance could not cure Wang Gaiying. They could only give everyone an ambiguous timeframe, saying Wang Gaiying might wake up within thirty years.

Modern medicine could not cure Wang Gaiying yet, but there was another way: possessing sufficiently powerful Primordial Force, such as… the elusive Celestial Human Realm.

At that level, one could communicate with heaven and earth, using a mysterious power from the world to try to repair Wang Gaiying’s damaged nerves and wake her up. However, this hope was even more desperate than the thirty-year estimate.

Jiang Xincheng clearly knew that even by New Era Year 65, which was sixty years later, no one had cultivated to the Celestial Human Realm. Even Practitioners who reached the Jianghe Realm were few and far between.

Reaching the Celestial Human Realm would take who knows how long. Even he was not fully confident. What surprised Jiang Xincheng was that this treatment method became one of Lu Guangwei’s strongest motivations for cultivation.

Looking at Lu Guangwei sitting cross-legged by Wang Gaiying’s bedside, diligently cultivating, Jiang Xincheng sighed softly and left. Perhaps this was a good thing, as it at least boosted Lu Guangwei’s motivation for cultivation several times over. Truly, the power of love was the most moving and motivating.

However, Lu Guangwei truly lived up to his former identity as the mighty demon god Chi You. Driven by hatred, gratitude, and love, possessing superior cultivation talent, astonishing perseverance, and the Chi You Profound God Scripture—a Celestial Grade, Upper Tier Origin Force Cultivation Method perfectly suited to Lu Guangwei’s physique—in just about half a month, Lu Guangwei’s strength soared from the late Muscle Training Realm to the early Tendon Training Realm, crossing the major boundary between the Muscle Training Realm and the Tendon Training Realm.

Moreover, from today onward, Jiang Xincheng would give Lu Guangwei a monthly quota of Yuan Crystals. With these Yuan Crystals to assist him, Lu Guangwei’s cultivation speed would reach another level, terrifying even the typical Pride of Heaven.

What realm Lu Guangwei would reach in the future, even Jiang Xincheng did not dare to guess. Talent, perseverance, Yuan Crystals, cultivation methods, motivation… Lu Guangwei lacked none of these. In the future, he would surely become an even more terrifying Chi You Demon God than in his previous life, wielding the Chi You Battle Axe to clear obstacles for Jiang Xincheng and help him establish an unparalleled legacy.

Do not idle away your time, or you will regret it when your hair turns white.

Taking one last look at the diligently cultivating Lu Guangwei, Jiang Xincheng left the hospital and prepared to return to Tianhai University to continue his own diligent cultivation and attempt to break through the bottleneck of the Cloud Condensation Realm.

That afternoon, Jiang Xincheng took a taxi to the airport, planning to catch a flight from Hetang County to Tianhai City. He had been away from school for so long; it was time to go back.

Just as he was about to reach the airport, a reminder sound suddenly came from the Centurion token at his waist.

Emergency Mission!

Jiang Xincheng was startled. He immediately took out the Centurion token and looked at the Handheld Computer on the back. Sure enough, the Flourishing Tang Empire had issued him an emergency mission.

Eliminate the Yellow River Three Ghosts and save everyone on the luxury bus.

Emergency missions were tasks that the Flourishing Tang Empire occasionally proactively issued to its members. Generally, because the Empire sent these missions proactively rather than the members accepting them themselves, the rewards for such missions were relatively generous and could even cross star levels.

So-called cross-star rewards meant that a one-star emergency mission could yield the reward of a two-star ordinary mission, a two-star emergency mission could yield the reward of a three-star ordinary mission, and so on.

The Flourishing Tang Empire usually issued emergency missions to several Empire members closest to the mission location. Whoever completed the mission would receive the reward. Emergency missions were temporary, occurring unexpectedly, and typically extremely urgent—the kind where if you did not arrive in time, something bad would happen.

Looking at the emergency mission on the Handheld Computer screen, then checking the mission location and thinking about his flight time, Jiang Xincheng’s eyes flickered. He said to the taxi driver in front, “Driver, head to the middle section of Ninghe Expressway, as fast as possible. I’ll pay you ten times the fare. The sooner we get there, the more I’ll pay.”

The taxi driver was stunned for a moment, then said loudly, “Alright, young man, watch me! I guarantee we’ll reach Ninghe Expressway within twenty minutes. I know this route like the back of my hand.”

With that, the taxi driver stepped on the gas, and the speed instantly increased several times, racing like the wind toward the direction of Ninghe Expressway.

On a luxury bus in the middle section of Ninghe Expressway, a robbery was taking place.

Three men wearing ghost masks coldly watched everyone on the bus. Green-Faced Ghost with Fangs grabbed a middle-aged man in his thirties and, under the horrified gazes of everyone, slapped the man’s head, smashing it open. The man fell to the ground, dead beyond doubt.

“Ahhh…”

“Murder! Murder! Help!”

“Waa… Someone save us.”

…

Seeing that the three ghost-masked men actually dared to kill, everyone on the bus panicked. Some screamed, some cried for help, and some wailed loudly.

“Shut up, all of you!” the Ox-Head Ghost next to Green-Faced Ghost with Fangs roared fiercely. “Anyone who makes another sound will end up like this old man!”

The bus immediately fell silent. Under the threat of death, no one dared to make a sound. Everyone quietly watched the three ghost-masked men, trembling, and obediently sat still.

Green-Faced Ghost with Fangs sneered coldly, pointing at the dead middle-aged man at his feet. “Now you probably won’t disbelieve what I say. Do I need to repeat myself?”

Here, Green-Faced Ghost with Fangs paused, glaring coldly at everyone and shouting fiercely, “Now, immediately, right away, each of you, as I said before, no matter what method you use, must transfer ten thousand Credit Points to my anonymous bank card within thirty minutes. This is your ransom. Those who pay live; those who don’t get killed.”

With a dead body as an example, how could anyone on the bus dare not believe? These ruthless bandits absolutely meant what they said. Immediately, some people started raising money.

However, a few people protested quietly.

“I don’t have that much money on me, and my family doesn’t have that much either. What should I do?”

“Can it be less? My family is really poor. Five thousand Credit Points, is that okay?”

“Ten thousand Credit Points is really too much. I can’t gather that much in half an hour. Can you give us another hour? Please…”